INVITATION:
Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the
following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results
to:
ICDS 2018, The Twelfth International Conference on Digital Society and eGovernments
CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS
ICDS 2018, The Twelfth International Conference on Digital Society and
eGovernments
General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2018/ICDS18.html
Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2018/SubmitICDS18.html
Event schedule: March 25 - 29, 2018 - Rome, Italy
Contributions:
regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library]
short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library]
ideas: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
extended abstracts: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
posters: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]
presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]
demos: two pages [posted at www.iaria.org]
doctoral forum submissions: [in the proceedings, digital library]
Proposals for:
mini symposia: see http://www.iaria.org/symposium.html
workshops: see http://www.iaria.org/workshop.html
tutorials: [slide-deck posed on www.iaria.org]
panels: [slide-deck posed on www.iaria.org]
Submission deadline: November 5, 2017
Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org
Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html
Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org
The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts,
state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments,
applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit
complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference
or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.
All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of
Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations,
Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.
Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html
ICDS 2018 Topics (for topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)
Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2018/CfPICDS18.html
Trends in government-related actions
Smart Cities; Smart Nations; Citizen-centric projects and decisions; Citizen
participation in digital government; Usable climate and awareness information;
Models for public services; Social media; Social tweeting; ePetitions; eJustice
reforms; eParticipation; eGovernment 4.0; Collaborative governance; Digital era
governance; Co-creation and co-production of public services; Smart urbanity;
e-Ticketing systems; Global and local sustainability; Digital economic
strategies; Cybersecurity portals; Transparency and public participation;
Metrics for local government responsiveness; Public-private partnerships;
Free-access digital libraries; Facebook privacy; Censorship; Web-scale
eGovernment recommendation services; Novelty versus social impact; Demographic
estimates for urban planners; Citizen-centric maps adaptation (floods,
evacuation, emergency, parks, seismic areas, public spaces, etc.);
Time-dependent citizen-centric facilities (ambulance spots, firefight stations,
etc.); eGovernment solutions and political polarization
Trends in IT related governmental/public services
Citizen-centric government IT planning; Smart Cities High Technology; Internet
of Things (IOT) Intelligent Cities; Urban computing; Traffic/congestion
prediction systems (cars, pedestrians, bicyclists); Online ride-sharing
systems; Intelligent transport urban systems; Monitoring urban resources
(hospitals, schools, water, gas, electricity, parks, etc.); Digital health
systems; Smart wearable and portable devices; Smartphones and the digital
divide; Crowd mobility metrics and patterns; Elderly-oriented services; Big
data for digital government; Open government data; Government datasets;
Anonymity and de-anonymization; Privacy in medical tests and personalized
medicine; Systems and assistive technologies; Real-time platforms for community
communications (portals, radio and TV local stations, etc.); IT systems to
advertize risks and uncertainty; IT citizen-centric for noise and pollution;
Personalized route planning systems; Ambient street displays; IT ethics in
online environments
eGovernment services in the context of digital society
e-Government strategies; Citizen-Government eModels; Special applications and
services of eGovernment; ePayment, eTax administration; eVoting, eCitizen
identity cards; Social e-financial projects; Educating eHealth; Homeland
security and public records; eGarbage collection of private records; Metrics
for eGovernment projects and services; Benefits of eGovernment; On-line social
networking; Financing e-Government; e-Governance; From e-Government to
m-Government (mobile-Government); e-Environment
Digital accessibility
Design approaches, techniques, and tools to support Web accessibility; Best
practices for evaluation, testing reviews and repair techniques; Accessibility
across the entire system lifecycle; Accessibility within e-organizations: good
practices and experiences; Industry and research collaboration, learning from
practice, and technology transfer; Mobile Internet-Web Accessibility;
Developing user interfaces for different devices; Dealing with different
interaction modalities; Web authoring guidelines and tools; Accessibility and
other core areas related to the Web user experience; (UX): Usability,
Findability, Valuability, Credibility, etc.; Innovations in assistive
technologies for the Web; Accessible graphic formats and tools for their
creation; Adaptive Web accessibility; Accessibility and information
architecture; Universally accessible graphical design approaches; User
Profiling; Cognitive and behavioral psychology of end user experiences and
scenarios
Citizen-centric disruptive and enabling technologies
Wireless and user mobility; Ubiquitous systems; On-line interactions;
User-centric services, applications, eLearning; High speed electronics,
storage, networking eHealth and nano medicine; Biological informatics and
computing
Internet and Web services
IP-based networking and applications; Best effort and QoS/SLA; WWW, Web
Services, Semantic Web; eLearning and mobile learning; Service-oriented
platforms; Peer-to-Peer Systems and applications; Web-advertising and
Web-publishing Multimedia and Webcasting
eCommerce and eBusiness
On-line shopping frameworks; Trust, privacy, security; Internet macro and micro
payment systems; On-line banking; Agent-based e-commerce; eBusiness models and
costs; eBusiness applications; Infrastructure for e-Commerce; Mobile
commerce
Citizen-oriented digital evidence
Processing citizen-oriented electronic evidence (acquisition, preservation,
analysis); Multimedia documents ( X-rays, radiology, biometrics, and
surveillance data); Medical digital forensics; Classic and 3D medical
documents; DNA profiling; Genetic and biocomputing; Forensic and data mining;
Predictive data modeling; Biological data and privacy; Digital forensics
tools
Consumer-oriented devices and services
Mobile TV and IPTV; Consumer-oriented e-commerce; Smart and digital homes;
Wearable devices; Smart consumer appliances; Speech enable appliances; Consumer
accessibility appliances and services
Intelligent computation
Theories of agency and autonomy; Intelligent techniques, logics, and systems;
Evolutionary computation; Autonomic and autonomous systems; Autonomic computing
and autonomic networking; Ubiquitous and ambient computing; Computational
economics; Protecting and preventing computing; High performance computing; Service-oriented
computing; Multi-agent based computing; Cluster computing and performance;
Artificial intelligence
Networking and telecommunications
Networking and telecommunications technologies; Wireless, mobility and
multimedia systems; Internet and Web Services technologies; Systems
performance, security, and high availability; Communications protocols
(SIP/H323/MPLS/IP); Specialized networks (GRID/P2P/Overlay/Ad hoc/Sensor);
Advanced services (VoIP/IPTV/Video-on-Demand); Advanced paradigms (SOA/WS/on-demand)
eDefense for security and protection
Knowledge for global defense; Security in network, systems, and applications;
Trust, privacy, and safeness; Business continuity and availability;
Cryptography and algorithms encryption; Rapid Internet attacks and network;
Applications and network vulnerabilities
Intrusion Prevention and Detection Systems
Reducing false positives and improving true positives; Automating IPDS
responses; Innovative signature writing and processing; Improving IPDS
usability; Successful approaches to Anomaly IPDS (Statistical; Fuzzy logic;
Bayesian; Neural networks, etc.); Inventive behavioural based IPDS methods;
Inventive host based IPDS methods; Improving the performance of IPDS; Multiple
sensor IPDS; Tuning IPDS; The business cases supporting IPDS; Network traffic
normalization techniques; Cost/Benefit of IPDS; Combining IPDS with other
hardware e.g. firewalls, routers etc.; Inventive methods of using IPDS to
counter specific attack types (Web attacks; Buffer overflow attacks; Brute
force attacks, etc.); Comparisons of different IPDS mechanisms; Combining
multiple IPDS approaches
Enforced citizen-centric paradigms
Data-centered information systems; User-centric information systems; Pervasive
and ubiquitous systems; Mobile learning and communications; Open and distance
education systems
Web accessibility
Design approaches, techniques, and tools to support Web accessibility; Best
practices for evaluation, testing reviews and repair techniques; Accessibility
across the entire system lifecycle; Accessibility within e-organizations: good
practices and experiences; Industry and research collaboration, learning from
practice, and technology transfer; Mobile Internet-Web Accessibility;
Developing user interfaces for different devices; Dealing with different
interaction modalities; Web authoring guidelines and tools; Accessibility and
other core areas related to the Web user experience; (UX): Usability,
Findability, Valuability, Credibility, etc.; Innovations in assistive technologies
for the Web; Accessible graphic formats and tools for their creation; Adaptive
Web accessibility; Accessibility and information architecture; Universally
accessible graphical design approaches; User Profiling; Cognitive and
behavioral psychology of end user experiences and scenarios
Computational advertising
Computational linguistics; Linguistic signal processing; Statistical properties
of community structures; Semantic contextual advertising; Relevance and click
feedback; Searching dense and isolated submarkets; Latent factor models;
Semantic relatedness; Personalized ad delivery; Processing over query-dependent
functions; Inverse document frequency; Query-biased summarization;
Pseudo-relevance feedback; Classification of rare queries; Page ranking
Management and control
Digital telecommunications management; Control and monitoring systems;
Measurement and management systems; Human/Machine interface and man-in-the-loop
control; Energy and power systems control; Self-monitoring, self-diagnosing,
self-management systems
Digital analysis and processing
Digital information processing (Voice/Data/Video); Computer graphics and
animation; Virtual reality/3D graphics/Games; Computer modeling/simulation;
Graphic/Image/Photo/Hand-writing analysis and processing; Pattern recognition /
Computer vision; Natural language processing / robust processing; Speech
recognition and processing
Mobile devices and biotechnologies
Robotics/Mobile devices/ Mobile networks; Handled and wearable computing and
devices; Vehicular navigation and control;
Nanotechnologies/Systems-on-the-chip/Networks-on-the-chip/ Haptic phenomena;
Biotechnologies/Bioinformatics/Biometrics/Biomedical systems; Computational
biochemistry; Biological data management
Software and system robustness for digital society
Portals and user-oriented systems; Software as a service; Software
specification and design methodologies; Software development and deployment;
Programming languages and supporting tools;
Patterns/Anti-patterns/Artifacts/Frameworks; Agile/Generic/Agent-oriented
programming; Neuronal networks/Fuzzy logic/Temporal logic/ Genetic Algorithms;
Reasoning models/Model checking/Modular reasoning/; Program
verification/validation/correctness ; Embedded and real-time systems;
Consumer-oriented digital design
Online consumer decision support & advertising; Semiotic engineering of
online services; Human factors in computer systems; Personal information
management; Consumer trust in digital society; Interaction in smart
environments; Mobile consumers and interactive spaces; Hedonic and perceived digital
quality; Usability, aesthetics, and accessibility; Multimodal and interactive
interfaces; Intelligent user interfaces
Social networking
Social networking technologies (Web 2.0, faceBook, YouTube, Twitter, etc.);
Enterprise social networking; General informative webcast; Government
information webcast; State-of-the-art for chat, blogs, wikis, etc.;
Text-audio-video blogs; Virtual tradeshows; Social profiling; Contextual social
network analysis; Personalization for search and for social interaction;
Dynamics, evolution, and trend prediction patterns; Social interactions;
Medical assistance in social networking; Data protection inside communities;
Misbehavior detection in communities; Pattern presentation for end-users and
experts; Evolution of communities in the Web; Online and offline social
networks; Information acquisition and establishment of social relations
ICT support and applications for eCollaboration
Touch screen voting; Local e-Participation; Portals and eGovernment websites;
eGovernment platforms and benchmarks; Business process management;
Interoperable frameworks (national and cross-countries); Private-public
eCollaboration; Regional and cross-nation competitiveness
Cyberlaws
Digital Divide and Accessibility; e-Democracy and e-Government; Privacy;
e-Anonymity and e-Identity; WEB x.0 Impersonation, e-Harassment and e-Threats;
e-Loss; e-Fraud Prevention; Technical Countermeasures; e-Law; e-Punishment;
e-International relations
ICDS 2018 Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2018/ComICDS18.html
